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President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the Alaska meeting with the Russian leader comes with enormous stakes.

EDITORIAL: By switching allegiances away from our old ally Israel and coming out in support of Palestinian recognition now, Mr Albanese is picking a side. 

Kim Yo-jong, the powerful sister and close aide to Kim Jong-un, has bluntly dismissed Seoul’s latest peace overtures, a clear signal North Korea isn’t ready to thaw relations with its new liberal neighbour.

The annual Kennedy Centre Honours production may see significant changes under Donald Trump, who revealed the honourees during a visit to the arts complex on Wednesday.

The boat was carrying about 100 people when it crashed.

The tariff pause gives negotiators until mid-November to resolve major sticking points as a Beijing summit looms.

The US budget deficit has surged nearly 20 per cent in July, with record tariff collections under Donald Trump failing to slow the nation’s growing fiscal gap.

Volodymyr Zelensky says Vladimir Putin had scored a ‘personal victory’ by getting invited to talks with Donald Trump on US soil.

The senator died at a hospital in the nation’s capital two months after being shot in the head while giving a campaign speech in a park.

The US President is planning to flex his law enforcement power over Washington, declaring that he would clear the city of homeless people and crack down on crime.

AARON PATRICK: Australia’s planned recognition of Palestine is predicated on reforms unlikely to be implemented by the Palestinian Authority in the short term, if ever.

Foreign Affairs spokesman for the Reform party, Richard Tice, says the West must learn from the Russia-Ukraine war and make it clearer to China that a move on Taiwan would bring huge economic punishment.

Defence, development and security will be Australia's top priorities as some of the nation's most senior politicians head to the Pacific for key talks.

LATIKA M BOURKE: Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to fully occupy Gaza, seemingly indifferent to, or deliberately ignoring, the long-term erosion of international and generational support for Israel.

Israeli leaders have approved the plan for the occupation of the besieged enclave, a move which promises to take the nearly two-year war into uncharted terrain.